Wednesday, 22 August 2012

This tutorial will
guide you stepby step on how to
integrate Jquery into SharePoint, and the best part is being an end-user with
no special administrative privilege you should be able to do the integration ofJqueryinto SharePoint... Guess that should have given you some happiness !!

Have you ever felt
of having a nice pop-up on your SharePoint page when you hover your mouse over
a link or an image? Yes that's what I would be showing you today. You can
download all the necessary script and the files from this link :

Now let me take you
through the steps, you don’t need to edit any SharePoint Master Pages or get
the SharePoint Designer / Visual Studio all you need to do is just a
"Content Editor Webpart" and a document library to store the
"Jquery" Files.

Do you want to see the pop-up working on your site straight away ? If So lets do it, so that you can see
how it looks in your SharePoint site ,follow the below 2 simple step for you to get a feel of it.

Open the Folder >
Click on the html page you see here , "ClickMe.html" and that's it,
it should open up the file where you can hover your mouse on the "mouse
over here" text andyou should see
a pop-up..

What you have done
is, you have opened an html file and it is showing
up the jquery pop-up, that should give you some happiness. Now the next step is
to see how we can get the same pop-up in a SharePoint page and also how to link
it to different elements like the image or the links

There is a small
tidying up need to be done and put proper reference for this, You Ready ?

Step 1.

Navigate to the
SharePoint page where you want to see the pop-up, insert aContent Editor Webpart on the page. There is a file
which you can find in the folder called "SharePoint JQuery
Script.txt", this contains the script file which you need to insert to a
Content Editor Webpart, so we need to put the right references here

Update the below
three lines with appropriate path to the files in reference to your Site

(There
is an easier way to find it, if you navigate to these actual files in your site
and then hover your mouse over the file and click on the drop-down > Send To
> Email a Link will give you the full path including " http://url" you can paste the same complete link
here and SharePoint will trim this down for you...easy ya? )

Step 2.

Once you have
updated the above references,select the
Content Editor webpart (CEWP)> Select the "Format Text" tab on the
Ribbon Control> click on the HTML >
Edit HTML Source

Copy the whole
script code from "SharePoint Jquery Script.txt" updated with your
reference and paste it in the CEWP.

Paste the Script in
the HTML box> Click OK >Save the Page.

Step 3.

Now when ever you
paste any scripts in the CEWP, Sharepoint always does some editing to clean
it up, so ensure you got the scripts without any spaces or changes else it wont
work, double check it with the screen shot below.

Step 4.

If everything is
fine then hover your mouse over the "click here" and then you should
see a pop-up

Step 5.

You can create or
associate this pop-up with any links or images on the page all you need to do
is to copy paste the same code segment and create unique id and reference the Class id.

That's it;so you have implemented Jquery in SharePoint,
you could experiment with more features of Jquery.

Hope this article throws some light on the JQuery front...

Reference

This article have used Jquery
Pop-Up with open license, refer the below link for more options on parameters

If you have started
working in SharePoint calendars you would have noticed that it is a bit
difficult to find the schedules of other people in SharePoint calendar , you
have to check that in outlook and then come to SharePoint to add an event it
will add up the hassle if it's a meeting workspace. If you want to know more on
how to configure SharePoint meeting workspace look on this article : http://sharepointlogics.com/2012/04/how-to-use-configure-meeting-workspace.html

OK so back to
Scheduling, follow the below steps, this is basically a workaround as
SharePoint does not support out of the boxview of Schedules of other people.

Step 1.

Open up Outlook >
Go to the SharePoint Calendar > Click on the day which you wish to Schedule
in SharePoint Calendar

Step 2.

Click on Actions
> View Group Schedules

Step 3.

Click New > Type
in a name "My team" >Add
the names yow want to view the schedules> click on Make meeting > New Meetingwith All

This will create a
new meeting on your SharePoint Calendar >, Click on Meeting WorkSpace >
if you want a meeting workspace > In the bottom of the mail you can see the
event is getting created in the SharePoint Calendar

In this way you can
use SharePoint Calendar to create events, meetings and with this workaround you
can also view the Schedules of other people.

Friday, 10 August 2012

"Your changes could not be saved because this SharePoint Web site has exceeded the storage quota limit. You must save your work to another location. Contact your administrator to change the quota limits for the Web site"

Monday
morning....the teams started getting error saying " Your changes could not
be saved because this SharePoint Web site has exceeded the storage quota limit.

You must
save your work to another location.Contact your administrator to change the quota limits for the Web site. " and received calls and emails from different
teams saying there are some issues with SharePoint and need help, emergency,
911..... what not...

Had a look
and found that this error is happening because of the storage quota limit which
is set in SharePoint Central Admin.

SharePoint
sets appropriate quota size for the site template and for the site collection. As
part of the architecture usually disk and space assessment will be done and
appropriate quota will be decided , SharePoint will be set to a default limit
if you have not pre-configured it.

So need to
review the quota size limit, and then need to do appropriate actions, follow
the below steps: